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Ch. 4, Section 1
Chapter 4, Section 1 - Technology and Industrial Growth
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| People who invest money in a product or enterprise in order to make a profit. | Entrepreneurs |
| Taxes that would make imported goods cost more than those made locally. | Protective tariffs |
| These policies allowed businesses to operate under minimal government regulation. | Laissez-faire |
| A grant by the federal government giving an inventor the exclusive rights to develop, use, and sell an invention for a set period of time. | Patent |
| Name of the person who patented the electric light bulb. | Thomas Edison |
| Process that Henry Bessemer developed for purifying iron, resulting in strong, but lightweight, steel. | Bessemer process |
| Bridges in which the roadway is suspended by steel cables. | Suspension bridges |
| Any of the 24 longitudinal divisions of the earth's surface in which a standard time is kept. | Time zone |
| The term given to the idea that factory owners developed systems for turning out large numbers of products quickly and inexpensively. | Mass production |